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ASR 5500 System Administration Guide, StarOS Release 18 ▄

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CONTENTS

About this Guide ............................................................................................. xvii

Conventions Used ................................................................................................................................ xviii

MIOs and DPCs ...................................................................................................................................... xix

Related Documentation .......................................................................................................................... xix

Contacting Customer Support .................................................................................................................xx

System Operation and Configuration ............................................................. 21

Terminology ............................................................................................................................................ 22

Contexts ............................................................................................................................................. 22

Ports ................................................................................................................................................... 22

Logical Interfaces ............................................................................................................................... 22

Management Interface ................................................................................................................... 23

Bindings ......................................................................................................................................... 23

Services ......................................................................................................................................... 23

AAA Servers .................................................................................................................................. 24

Subscribers ........................................................................................................................................ 24

How the System Selects Contexts ......................................................................................................... 25

Context Selection for Context-level Administrative User Sessions .................................................... 25

Context Selection for Subscriber Sessions ........................................................................................ 27

Understanding the ASR 5500 Boot Process .......................................................................................... 28

Understanding Configuration Files ......................................................................................................... 30

IP Address Notation ................................................................................................................................ 32

IPv4 Dotted-Decimal Notation ............................................................................................................ 32

IPv6 Colon-Separated-Hexadecimal Notation ................................................................................... 32

CIDR Notation .................................................................................................................................... 32

Alphanumeric Strings ............................................................................................................................. 34

Character Set ..................................................................................................................................... 34

Quoted Strings ................................................................................................................................... 35

Getting Started .................................................................................................. 37

ASR 5500 Configuration ......................................................................................................................... 38

Using the ASR 5500 Quick Setup Wizard .............................................................................................. 39

Using the CLI for Initial Configuration ..................................................................................................... 44

Configuring the System for Remote Access........................................................................................... 46

Configuring the Management Interface with a Second IP Address........................................................ 49

System Settings ................................................................................................ 51

Configuring a Second Management Interface ........................................................................................ 52

Verifying and Saving Your Interface and Port Configuration .................................................................. 53

Configuring System Timing .................................................................................................................... 54

Setting the System Clock and Time Zone .......................................................................................... 54

Verifying and Saving Your Clock and Time Zone Configuration ........................................................ 54

Configuring Network Time Protocol Support ...................................................................................... 55

Configuring NTP Servers with Local Sources .................................................................................... 56

Using a Load Balancer ....................................................................................................................... 56

Verifying the NTP Configuration ......................................................................................................... 56

Enabling CLI Timestamping ................................................................................................................... 58

Configuring CLI Confirmation Prompts ................................................................................................... 58